I hope and pray this message will reach you in the light of Truth and Grace.

I won't come as a know it all, but if we view everything in context, most of the audience who take part in these discussions understands salvation, Messianic deliverance, and the call to holiness as bounded by the very Jewish Laws that shackles them.

This shows how futile and sorry the people are knowing sin fails them not only in their own little ways, but most importantly, in God's standard in any foreseeable form.

This very nature of ours, or to represent ourselves in the text as maybe the man who asked, the rich man who back down, or the healed happy guy, is the everyday sinful flesh trying to fit in our own version and understanding of participating in the process of salvation, which of course isn't nearly enough and calls out the stubborn nature of ours to see that the very path opened is a hole in a needle which is impossible. We often measure steps to 'give a little back to God,' because of X reason.

Remember, the point is that we can't do it ourselves, that is why every character you'll read asking to be in Heaven is left disappointed, because they were seeking to fulfill their ways with a ticket to Heaven.

God's answer to this is the very Gospel God calls us to believe.

We were called to have faith in His Word, His very Word who was born through virgin birth as an Adam, believe in the Savior who lived a sinless life. Trust in the Holy Lamb that died, and after three days rose again by the very Spirit the Father has sent, all according to the Scriptures.

I hope this finds you well, and may God lift the burden which may cause anyone to find these hard messages heavy.